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Does Maternal Buprenorphine Dose Affect Severity or Incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/2018/12000/Does_Maternal_Buprenorphine_Dose_Affect_Severity.5.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1wrQd8Z9wztT3bHlBfjplZPtpuEJ87wm9NeTMjkbvFey_kJTZ7Xc_JtOg Comments; Local to me, Methadone is still the drug of choice for...
I wanted to tell people…
I wanted to tell people, that there is hope and there is treatment that will reverse the damage caused by mold..including the brain hypertrophy/atrophy. Dr. Raymond Oenbrink in Asheville, NC has helped us tremendously over the last 11 or so months. This doctor saved...
An association of membrane-damaging toxins from coagulase-negative staphylococci and chronic orofacial muscle pain
http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/jmm/47/7/medmicro-47-7-577.pdf?expires=1543791966&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=582313D11A9283627DF27566B938C040 Comment; Toxin-producing coagulase negative staph are associated with increased pain. ...
Membrane Damaging Toxins from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus Are Associated with Self-Reported Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J092v12n03_03?journalCode=icfs20 Comment; How many of these folks had MARCoNS breaking down α-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone which amplifies pain when α-MSH levels are low? Lee N. Metcalf Bioanalytical Research Group,...
SILVER IONS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MEMORY IMPAIRMENT INDUCED BY ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CV-d5YQwxLp9mfmrgHGtQOrmuOwrb4Gg Comments; Interesting that orally administered silver nanoparticles would preferentially concentrate themselves in the hippocampus, location of memory formation. Due to proximity to the olfactory...
Antifungal activity of ibuprofen alone and in combination with fluconazole against Candida species.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10966233 Comment; 10 mg/cc of ibuprofen is a excessively high concentration unattainable in any clinical scenario. Ibuprofen can be dosed up to 2400 mg/d which is about 100 mg/hr, even in somebody with complete renal failure,...
Oral fluoroquinolones and risk of secondary pseudotumor cerebri syndrome
http://n.neurology.org/content/89/8/792 Comment; With an overall risk of 0.005547625% (339/6,110,723), it’s not a common syndrome, I was aware of the risk with flouroquinolones and tetracyclines. Sounds like a paper written in search of completion of a fellowship…...
Mini-Review: Toxic Tendinopathy.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28553748 Comment; What an eye-opener! I’ve known of the risk of tendon rupture with flouroquinolones, but had no idea of the depth of information available, brought to light by these dedicated ISEAI members! Keith Berndtson, MD...
Curcumin Inhibits the Activation of Immunoglobulin E-Mediated Mast Cells and Passive Systemic Anaphylaxis in Mice by Reducing Serum Eicosanoid and Histamine Levels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936421/ Comment; Unfortunately, as well as curcumin works for inflammation & mast cell stabilization, there is no impetus for the pharmaceutical industry to develop it unless they can modify and thus patent what...
Curcumin treatment leads to better cognitive and mood function in a model of Gulf War Illness with enhanced neurogenesis, and alleviation of inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in the hippocampus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29454881 Comment; Curcumin is a well known antioxidant/anti-inflammatory that’s been used in Ayurvedic medicine for >7,000 years. Our current system in which natural compounds cannot be patented encourages the pharmaceutical...
Captured Agency: How the FCC is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wgbskuEjXwPkv_GdhsS4aSe3i-s-COB7 Comments; Money talks, shouts, yells & screams. This is yet another example of the corruption that has taken over our beautiful country. For how much longer? Change IS coming!
Acute Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Emitted by Mobile Phone on Brain Function
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vM8zI9Fp0hrYPFmIdJNwsZ5biDFlyE2m Comment; Prefrontal, frontal & frontotemporal excitability have been ASSOCIATED with use of cell phones. It’s also important to keep in mind that we don’t have a “pure” lab experiment. How can we...
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